Binding attachment for sewing-machines



(No Model.) 1

I. L. GRINNELL.

BINDING ATTACHMENT FOR SEWING MAGHINE S.

110. 244,124. Patented July 12,1881.

N. PEYERS. Photo-Litho ra her, Wilhinglml. D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IRA L. GRINNELL, OF ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN.

BINDING ATTACHMENT FORSEWING-MACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 244,124, dated July 12, 1881.

Application filed August 30, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IRA L. GEINNELL, of Ann Arbor, in the county of Washtenaw and State of Michigan, have invented an Improvement in Binding Attachments to Sewing-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

The nature of my invention relates to a new and useful improvement in the construction of binders for sewing-machines, by means of which the work is held in better position and guided to the needle, so that when finished the work presents a more true and better appearance than when done by means of the binders in ordinary use.

The invention consists in the peculiar construction of parts, as more fully hereinafter set forth.

In the accompanying drawing, which forms a part of this specification, there is shown a perspective view of a common scroll-binder with my improvement attached.

A B represent the two tapering scrolls, which form a binder, and at the discharge end of each of these scrolls each terminates in a narrow and downwardlycurved lip, a a, which are made in one piece with the scrolls, and extend one from the upper surface of the lower scroll and the other from the lower surface of the upper scroll. These lips are designed to hold the folds of the fabric being acted upon in position, and discharge it nearer the needle than is done by the ordinary binders, as the conformation of the lips is such as to allow them to extend under the curved end of the presser-foot with which such sewing-machines are provided. This will be found especially beneficial in binding curved edges or scallops, as the lips hold the folded edges apart, thereby preventing wrinkling in the curvatures, and allow the goods being bound to enter between the edges of the binding.

- What I claim as myinvention,and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A binding attachment for sewingmachines, composed of two scrolls, A B, the delivery end of each of said scrolls terminating in a lip, and both lips constructed and arranged to pass between the binding and the cloth, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. Abinder attachmentforsewing-machines, composed of two scrolls, A B, the delivery end of each of said scrolls terminating in a lip, a, said lips being formed in one piece with the scrolls, and extending one from the upper surface of the lower scroll and the other from the lower surface of the upper scroll, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

IRA L. GRINNELL.

Witnesses:

H. S. SPRAGUE, F. J. Sco'rr. I 

